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Sure, and that's their choice. It's their money to invest, be they good investments or bad ones.
I'm not saying that funnelling money into xAI is a good idea. I happen to think it's a terrible idea, I would much rather that SpaceX not do that. But it's not corruption.
It's got a milestone-based contract with NASA for Artemis. It's paid to achieve milestones. So if it hasn't been making good progress it isn't getting paid.
If you think the contract could be better written then maybe that's on NASA to do a better job negotiating. It has nothing to do with Grok one way or the other.
It's their money to invest however they want only if it comes with no strings attached, no obligations to use it for a specific purpose. We don't know if this is the case, so there's no basis to argue that they can do whatever they want with it.
What is corruption? It's a form of dishonesty that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority. That certainly seems to be the case here - not by SpaceX and xAi as such, but by Musk and his involvement in the government.
And Musk has everything to do with Grok.
So you're saying we don't have enough details to argue that they can spend the money however they want, but you can argue that they can't spend the money however they want?
No, that's not what I said. Do you have trouble with reading?